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Sunday, 22 June 2014

Red Bay Brewery tour

A visit to Red Bay Brewery in Cleveland, QLD Australia. A micro-brewery that allows you to brew up your own beer and bottle it. They offered a tour and tasting day on Groupon and my husband and I enjoyed getting to know our way around the brewery and then the tasting afterwards.

[ Red Bay Brewery - tasting area and bottling area ]

[ Brew kettles ]

[ Lager - wheat - dark ]

[ Water lines - the water comes from Stradbroke Island ]

[ Crystal Malt ]

[Fridge full of ingredients ]

[ Ingredients ]

[ Belgian candi syrup ]

[ Yellow malt - Carra malt - black malt - chocolate malt ]

[ Orange ]

[ Barrels of customers who are brewing their beer ]

[ Beer brewing ]

[ Customer's beer brewing ]

[ Finished result - the keg ]

Now onto the tasting

[ Pear cider ]

[ Wilder Heffe ]

[ Wilder Heffe ]

[ Vanilla Pub Ale ]

[ Skinny Goat ]

[ English Bitter ]

[ Ginger Beer ]

[ Four men light ]

[ Six of the beers (and cider) we tasted ]

And onto the bottling

[ Bottles draining ]

I didn't take any photos of the bottling process. We washed bottles and put them on the drainers to dry. We then filled the bottles and capped them, placing them into a cardboard box to take home.